Dictionary

gluttony en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/
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Etymology

From Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie, from Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The vice of eating to excess.
   • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

Forms

Antonyms

temperance

Relateds

alimentiveness · glutton · glut · gluttonry · gluttonous

Translations (94)

sv frosseri (the vice of eating to excess) · fr gloutonnerie (the vice of eating to excess) · cy glythineb (the vice of eating to excess) · bg чревоуго́дие (the vice of eating to excess) · et ahnus (the vice of eating to excess) · ro voracitate (the vice of eating to excess) · sh neumerenost (the vice of eating to excess) · uk ненаже́рливість (the vice of eating to excess) · da fråseri (the vice of eating to excess) · bg лакоми́я (the vice of eating to excess) · nah xixicuiyotl (the vice of eating to excess) · fr gourmandise (the vice of eating to excess) · it ghiottoneria (the vice of eating to excess) · sl požrešnost (the vice of eating to excess) · th ตะกละ (the vice of eating to excess) · ar شَرَه (the vice of eating to excess) · hu torkosság (the vice of eating to excess) · ar نَهَم (the vice of eating to excess) · fi vatsanpalvonta (the vice of eating to excess) · fi mässäily (the vice of eating to excess) · ka მსუნაგობა (the vice of eating to excess) · pt gula (the vice of eating to excess) · el λαιμαργία (the vice of eating to excess) · es gula (the vice of eating to excess) · es glotonería (the vice of eating to excess) · la gula (the vice of eating to excess) · hy որկրամոլություն (the vice of eating to excess) · nb fråtseri (the vice of eating to excess) · hy շատակերություն (the vice of eating to excess) · ceb kahakog (the vice of eating to excess) · ca gola (the vice of eating to excess) · ja 暴食 (the vice of eating to excess) · cmn 暴食 (the vice of eating to excess) · ko 건담하다 (the vice of eating to excess) · cs obžerství (the vice of eating to excess) · hu falánkság (the vice of eating to excess) · nl gulzigheid (the vice of eating to excess) · pl łakomstwo (the vice of eating to excess) · sw ulafi (the vice of eating to excess) · it gola (the vice of eating to excess) · de Fresssucht (the vice of eating to excess) · pt gulosice (the vice of eating to excess) · sl lakomnost (the vice of eating to excess) · it ingordigia (the vice of eating to excess) · de Völlerei (the vice of eating to excess) · tl katakawan (the vice of eating to excess) · ga craos (the vice of eating to excess) · sh prežderavanje (the vice of eating to excess) · eo glutemeco (the vice of eating to excess) · ar بِطْنَة (the vice of eating to excess) · ilo buklaw (the vice of eating to excess) · sk obžerstvo (the vice of eating to excess) · sl nenasitnost (the vice of eating to excess) · ka სიწუწკე (the vice of eating to excess) · nl vraatzucht (the vice of eating to excess) · pl obżarstwo (the vice of eating to excess) · grc γαστριμαργία (the vice of eating to excess) · ko 대식 (the vice of eating to excess) · bg ненаси́тност (the vice of eating to excess) · uk обже́рство (the vice of eating to excess) · mk ненаситност (the vice of eating to excess) · fi ylensyönti (the vice of eating to excess) · fa ژرد (the vice of eating to excess) · ko 폭식 (the vice of eating to excess) · ru чревоуго́дие (the vice of eating to excess) · gl gargantoice (the vice of eating to excess) · ka ნაყროვნება (the vice of eating to excess) · kk жемқорлық (the vice of eating to excess) · ja 大食い (the vice of eating to excess) · cs nenasytnost (the vice of eating to excess) · sh proždrljivost (the vice of eating to excess) · ro lăcomie (the vice of eating to excess) · et aplus (the vice of eating to excess) · gl lurpiña (the vice of eating to excess) · pt gulodice (the vice of eating to excess) · gd craos (the vice of eating to excess) · pl żarłoczność (the vice of eating to excess) · sk nenajedenosť (the vice of eating to excess) · tr oburluk (the vice of eating to excess) · de Gefräßigkeit (the vice of eating to excess) · sk nenásytnosť (the vice of eating to excess) · ka ღორმუცელობა (the vice of eating to excess) · ja 健啖 (the vice of eating to excess) · sh crevougodstvo (the vice of eating to excess) · ru обжо́рство (the vice of eating to excess) · uk обже́рливість (the vice of eating to excess) · grc λαιμαργία (the vice of eating to excess) · ru прожо́рливость (the vice of eating to excess) · sh neumjerenost (u jelu) (the vice of eating to excess) · tpw mba'e'ueteeté (the vice of eating to excess) · ar شَرَاهَة (the vice of eating to excess) · fa پرخوری (the vice of eating to excess) · ka გაუმაძღრობა (the vice of eating to excess) · be абжо́рства (the vice of eating to excess)